File formatting and downloads.

[Skyryder]

Have to convert a word document into a EPS format. Something to do for printing. Have tried to find this on Microsoft Office web page but to no avail. Anyone here know where I can find the download.

I have windows XP.

Skyryder

[Hitcher]

You'll need a conversion utility. From memory there are a bunch of shareware applications around that are all as good as each other. Probably cost you about US$30. Look on Tucows.

[dhunt]

Have a look at ghostscript, Free utilities for doing exactly that. Let me know if you need any more help finding this.

[Skyryder]

Have a look at ghostscript, Free utilities for doing exactly that. Let me know if you need any more help finding this.

Had a look but all at sea on this. I am looking for something along the lines of Generic Colour for Commercial Printing. This is the link from Microsoft Office Assistant http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP062079971033.aspx.

Skyryder

[dhunt]

Had a look but all at sea on this. I am looking for something along the lines of Generic Colour for Commercial Printing. This is the link from Microsoft Office Assistant http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP062079971033.aspx.

Skyryder
Yeah ghostscript can do what you want, I don't have a windoze box at home to play with so rather than confuse you more I'll post some instructions tomorrow once I get to work.

[TwoSeven]

You cant "save" to an EPS file in word because EPS is an image file format specially designed for printers (its vector graphics). If you try to print an EPS file to a non postscript capable printer you'll get about a ream of paper with garbage text all over it.

What you need to do is create a printer image of the word document - as one of the other links posted above says, you need to 'print to file' and just tell the printer driver to spit it to a file instead of a printer. You may end up with a large file.

Most graphics programs will save an image in EPS format - so if its graphics you want, then use something like paintshop or photoshop.

[DarkNinja]

Or macromedia freehand. its an Editable Photoshop Something-or-other
from memory

[dhunt]

Download the following programs and install them.

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs850/gs850w32.exe
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv46w32.exe

Then go add new printer->local printer->>use following port=print to file
Choose QMS->QMS ColorScript 100 driver

Follow that through->Then go back to printers and settings and goto the properties of the above printer and goto Advanced tab->Printer defaults->Advanced->postscript options->Postscript Output Option=EPS.
say ok a few times then goto a document and print to above printer which should ask you were you want to put it. save it as .eps.

Then find where you put it in your file manager and it should open in gsview as and eps file.

[Skunk]

You cant "save" to an EPS file in word because EPS is an image file format specially designed for printers (its vector graphics). If you try to print an EPS file to a non postscript capable printer you'll get about a ream of paper with garbage text all over it.
EPS is not only an image format. It's also a vector file format.
Your 'print to disk' bit is a creating a 'Postscript File'.
EPS is 'Encapsulated PostScript File'. It could be vector, bitmap (image) or a combination of both.
PDF (Portable Document File) is a format that was 'invented' to 'clean up' Postscript.
Postscript langauge itself can be used as a programming language but was mainly used to talk to printers.
The printer *should* be able to handle a PDF from Word (but Word does make the crappiest PDF's, second place goes to Publisher. Publisher should NOT be used for publishing...)